Legal Operations
More Legal Operations Articles
Technology
The Cyberthreat Within: As companies wake up to insider threats, C-suite executives are looking beyond IT for help
Two of the most insidious myths about cybersecurity are that most threats originate outside an organization – Russian hackers, for example – and that it is an IT problem. Amie Taal, a cybersecurity expert with Deutsche Bank, Jenny Le, who runs operations for e-discovery provider FRONTEO...
Read MoreCorporate Counsel
An On-Ramp to the C-Suite: A joint initiative aims to return motivated female lawyers to corporate counsel roles nationwide
Introduction: At the entry level, men and women join the legal profession at the same rates, yet by the time they reach leadership roles, less than 20 percent of partners are women. Corporate legal departments suffer the same disparity. This leaky pipeline is partially due to women’s choice...
Read MoreLegal Operations
Encouraging the Power to Dismiss Indictments: Courts should embrace the criminal analogue to the civil power to dismiss
Courts routinely dismiss civil complaints for failure to state a claim but seldom dismiss criminal indictments under the analogous Criminal Rule 12 for failure to state an offense. This divergent application of materially identical procedural rules has dramatic consequences for criminal defendants...
Read More
